It can't shock many that the budget for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow is on the way north, by £81 million.
Big ticket budgets in the public sector have a nasty habit of slipping, and by a long way.
The question for Glasgow, as for the London Olympics, is what the legacy will be after the athletes have gone home.
The plan is for a regenerated area of each city's east end, just as Manchester benefited.
That's why the athletes' village in Glasgow is being planned with a view to transforming it into permanent use as a new housing estate.
The designer specification is for flats and houses that can suit both purposes. And I'm told that the main difference between an athlete's needs and those of the average Glaswegian is their bathing requirements.
According to one of those at the heart of the plan, the village will have an unusually high number of showers in each new home.
Further comment, from me at least, is probably unwise. source: http://www.bbc.co.uk
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